i'm sure glad i don't roam around lawrence enough these days to get asked a question such as this one. i'm afraid i'd have to respond to "is it hot enough for ya" with a sound smackin' about the head of the asker. i get a bit cantakerous when i'm drenched in sweat&my hair is like a brillo pad.

i've got to admit that i like summertime and am not to crazy about winter. but i could do with a little less humidity and a little more wind. i like hot dry windy weather.
i've got to mow my yard today...by hand....the kids did something to the rider :(.. i'll let you know tonight how much i like summer by the time i get done!

The heat is crazy, but nothing compared to what may come later in the year. We all know how hot it can get around here. I don't even want to think about how high my electric bill is going to be next month.

I try to get my daycare kids out in the morning, but by the time we get done with lessons and all the activities we do they don't want to go out. I always ask and they say its to hot. With the playground wet from the rain I try to wait until at least until it dries a little bit, but by then its way to hot to go out.

My oldest has a game on Sunday at 215 and I'm hoping they cancel it due to extreme heat. I don't think anyone should be out playing ball in this heat.

Have a fantastic Friday everyone, drink lots of liquids and stay as cool as you can.

too hot! unfortunately it doesn't seem to faze (sp?) my alaskan malamute one bit. i have to keep an eye on her or she plays too much. And I have never met a dog that no matter the weather wants to go outside all the time...sheesh.

No, do you think you could kick it up a notch or two? I'm a bit chilly. WTH? This is one of the dumbest questions I've seen. We're going to need someone to come up with something else interesting to talk about. Anyone?

RI, that was a great post. Nothing like reminding us to be happy about the little things. Clerks II is definitely one of those things to be happy about. I love Kevin Smith movies. I want to add to that list Ben & Jerry's Half Baked by the pint, lightening bugs, swimming all day, bbq's with friends, ice cold Corona with limes.

Too hot. I'm glad that the cashiers aren't the only people asking this question, now LJW is. Oh well. Maybe they thought we needed a break from all of their tough edgy questions they gave us the rest of the week.

Napoleon_Dynomite---Well the picture of the form that came out of that man was quite interesting...maybe he could sell it as art?!

I hate when conversations only revolve around the weather...it is fine if one starts out with weather commentary but those conversations feel the most superficial....
oh and sgtwolverine I selpt fairly well last night, no lunch as of yet, but my breakfast of peanut butter captain crunch was great, thanks for asking

Stop complaining you wimps! Come on down to Phoenix with me. It's forcast to be 117 today and I have a tee time for 1pm. Anyone care to join me? Can't wait to get back to Kansas next Thursday so I can cool down!

Reticent - are you saying that you like portuguese fado music? If so, you are a man after my own heart. My all time favourite fadista is Amalia Rodriguez. Have you heard her? She is pretty old, I doubt if she is still alive. But oh what a voice. Did you know that fado means fate?
Did you know that fadistas always wear black when they sing? And that if anyone in the audience talks while they are singing, they will sing the same line of the song over and over again until it is quiet once more. NO ONE dares to speak when a fadista is singing. The golden rule.

RI, you da MAN! your post brought me to the lazy hazy crazy days of summer-and i honestly DO love it!!! frizzy hair&all! :) thanks to you i am now smiling. people think i'm weird anyway so it won't hurt. ;)

Marion thanks for the idea! The over night temp here in AZ tonight will be a chillly 92 degrees. I think I'll open my house about 3 am and see if it helps... Gotta go, my pet gecko just passed out from dehydration. He want's to go back to Lawrence with me, say's he has relatives in the area.(?) They're illegals but he says they eat flies for 10 cents on the dollar compared to Kansas lizards!

Y'all are such Kansas panty-waists!! It isn't considered summer until it hits 100 :) Kudos to those bringing positive vibes to a question that is by it's very design intended to extol negative responses.

I'm sooo jealous of southerngirl, going to San Anton and all.

trinity: So true, blt's are great in the summer - and soooo much better if you use plain old white Wonder Bread.

ms_canada: 75 eh? That does it. Put a candle in the window, I'll be there in about 3 weeks!!

omb: I remember that summer very well. At the time we only had 2 window air conditioners, so we basically lived in two rooms, ugh!

Omb, I remember well that heat wave in 1980. I lived in a house with no air conditioning at the time, and the only way I survived was to stand in the shower with all my clothes on and run the cold water. It's surprising how cool it makes you feel to have all your clothes wet. Takes awhile to dry out, too. Of course, you have to be careful where you sit down afterward...ha.

That year, the heat was so high and lasted for so long, that just about everyone I knew started wondering if the end of the world was coming! I had an indoor/outdoor thermometer on my house, and the highest it registered was 120 one day. Though it stayed in that range, from 110 to 120, for quite a few days. We had a storm come through one night, I was at the fair, it rained and the temp dropped to 70, and everyone was putting on long pants and sweaters because they were freezing...it was great!

Yeah, AC is a wonderful thing, but I think of all those poor folks who don't have it. Or if they do, they can't run it because they know they won't be able to pay the bills.

Hope it doesn't keep it up for too long, though the long-range forecasts say it will for at least another week. If it lasts too long, then the strain will start on the power grid, and we'll start having rolling brownouts. Oh, the joys of summer.

But this is typical weather for Kansas in July and August. It's amazing how many people don't know it gets this hot around here.

Here in southern Michigan, we're supposed to get just above 95 on Saturday; for us, that's very hot. I like to get perspective on it by talking to people in hotter places. I'm getting perspective from you all, and I also talked to my friend in Miami.

Of course, I'm still not too fond of it; I'm more of a cool- or cold-weather person.

Fanghorn..the tube sock comment got me, I kept thinking, doesn't this feel more like apple pie? And why hasn't anyone bit on that..until you did! good one! 50 pts. Would have been 100 if your would have brought up apple pie.

And sure took a while for someone to bring up Klondike Bars. 25 pts, even if it was late!

50 pts to jonas for tossing cookies and admitting it.

25 pts to esk pie for trying to take advantage of jonas' hot a$$ when he can't defend himself. Bad pie!